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PALCAS: A Priority-Aware Intelligent Lane Change Advisory System for Autonomous Vehicles using Federated Reinforcement Learning

Yassine Ibork, Nhat Ha Nguyen, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das · 2026

We present a priority-aware intelligent lane change advisory system based on multi-agent federated reinforcement learning, namely PALCAS, for autonomous vehicles (AVs). While existing lane-change appr…

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Spectral Kernel Dynamics via Maximum Caliber: Fixed Points, Geodesics, and Phase Transitions

Jnaneshwar Das · 2026

We derive a closed-form geometric functional for kernel dynamics on finite graphs by applying the Maximum Caliber (MaxCal) variational principle to the spectral transfer function h(lambda) of the grap…

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Realtime-VLA V2: Learning to Run VLAs Fast, Smooth, and Accurate

Chen Yang, Yucheng Hu, Yunchao Ma, Yunhuan Yang, Jing Tan, Haoqiang Fan · 2026

In deployment of the VLA models to real-world robotic tasks, execution speed matters. In previous work arXiv:2510.26742 we analyze how to make neural computation of VLAs on GPU fast. However, we leave…

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3PoinTr: 3D Point Tracks for Robot Manipulation Pretraining from Casual Videos

Adam Hung, Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ichnowski · 2026

Data-efficient training of robust robot policies is the key to unlocking automation in a wide array of novel tasks. Current systems require large volumes of demonstrations to achieve robustness, which…

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LAYER: A Quantitative Explainable AI Framework for Decoding Tissue-Layer Drivers of Myofascial Low Back Pain

Zixue Zeng, Anthony M. Perti, Tong Yu, Grant Kokenberger, Hao-En Lu, Jing Wang, Xin Meng, Zhiyu Sheng, Maryam Satarpour, John M. Cormack, Allison C. Bean, Ryan P. Nussbaum, Emily Landis-Walkenhorst, Kang Kim, Ajay D. Wasan, Jiantao Pu · 2025

Myofascial pain (MP) is a leading cause of chronic low back pain, yet its tissue-level drivers remain poorly defined and lack reliable image biomarkers. Existing studies focus predominantly on muscle …

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Image-based Morphological Characterization of Filamentous Biological Structures with Non-constant Curvature Shape Feature

Jie Fan, Francesco Visentin, Barbara Mazzolai, Emanuela Del Dottore · 2025

Tendrils coil their shape to anchor the plant to supporting structures, allowing vertical growth toward light. Although climbing plants have been studied for a long time, extracting information regard…

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Diffusion Models are Robust Pretrainers

Mika Yagoda, Shady Abu-Hussein, Raja Giryes · 2025

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classifica…

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AudioFuse: Unified Spectral-Temporal Learning via a Hybrid ViT-1D CNN Architecture for Robust Phonocardiogram Classification

Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Utsab Saha · 2025

Biomedical audio signals, such as phonocardiograms (PCG), are inherently rhythmic and contain diagnostic information in both their spectral (tonal) and temporal domains. Standard 2D spectrograms provi…

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DRARL: Disengagement-Reason-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Improvement of Autonomous Driving Policy

Weitao Zhou, Bo Zhang, Zhong Cao, Xiang Li, Qian Cheng, Chunyang Liu, Yaqin Zhang, Diange Yang · 2025

With the increasing presence of automated vehicles on open roads under driver supervision, disengagement cases are becoming more prevalent. While some data-driven planning systems attempt to directly …

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From Theory to Practice: Advancing Multi-Robot Path Planning Algorithms and Applications

Teng Guo · 2025

The labeled MRPP (Multi-Robot Path Planning) problem involves routing robots from start to goal configurations efficiently while avoiding collisions. Despite progress in solution quality and runtime, …

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DCD: A Semantic Segmentation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Four-Chamber View

Donglian Li, Hui Guo, Minglang Chen, Huizhen Chen, Jialing Chen, Bocheng Liang, Pengchen Liang, Ying Tan · 2025

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in the apical four-chamber (A4C) view of fetal echocardiography is essential for early diagnosis and prenatal evaluation of congenital heart disease (CHD…

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PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li, Kostas Triaridis, Varun Belagali, Tarak Nath Nandi, Karen Bai, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Tahsin Kurc, Rajarsi R. Gupta, Prateek Prasanna, Ravi K Madduri, Joel Saltz, Dimitris Samaras · 2025

The digitization of histology slides has revolutionized pathology, providing massive datasets for cancer diagnosis and research. Self-supervised and vision-language models have been shown to effective…

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DemoSpeedup: Accelerating Visuomotor Policies via Entropy-Guided Demonstration Acceleration

Lingxiao Guo, Zhengrong Xue, Zijing Xu, Huazhe Xu · 2025

Imitation learning has shown great promise in robotic manipulation, but the policy's execution is often unsatisfactorily slow due to commonly tardy demonstrations collected by human operators. In this…

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UNSURF: Uncertainty Quantification for Cortical Surface Reconstruction of Clinical Brain MRIs

Raghav Mehta, Karthik Gopinath, Ben Glocker, Juan Eugenio Iglesias · 2025

We propose UNSURF, a novel uncertainty measure for cortical surface reconstruction of clinical brain MRI scans of any orientation, resolution, and contrast. It relies on the discrepancy between predic…

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Accelerated 3D-3D rigid registration of echocardiographic images obtained from apical window using particle filter

Thanuja Uruththirakodeeswaran, Harald Becher, Michelle Noga, Lawrence H. Le, Pierre Boulanger, Jonathan Windram, Kumaradevan Punithakumar · 2025

The perfect alignment of 3D echocardiographic images captured from various angles has improved image quality and broadened the field of view. This study proposes an accelerated sequential Monte Carlo …

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Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints

Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Thomas Watteyne, Micael S. Couceiro, Roderich Gross · 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to transform logistics, reducing delivery time, costs, and emissions. This study addresses an on-demand delivery , in which fleets of UAVs are deployed to …

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InterSliceBoost: Identifying Tissue Layers in Three-dimensional Ultrasound Images for Chronic Lower Back Pain (cLBP) Assessment

Zixue Zeng, Matthew Cartier, Xiaoyan Zhao, Pengyu Chen, Xin Meng, Zhiyu Sheng, Maryam Satarpour, John M Cormack, Allison C. Bean, Ryan P. Nussbaum, Maya Maurer, Emily Landis-Walkenhorst, Kang Kim, Ajay D. Wasan, Jiantao Pu · 2025

Available studies on chronic lower back pain (cLBP) typically focus on one or a few specific tissues rather than conducting a comprehensive layer-by-layer analysis. Since three-dimensional (3-D) image…

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Cross-Embodiment Robotic Manipulation Synthesis via Guided Demonstrations through CycleVAE and Human Behavior Transformer

Apan Dastider, Hao Fang, Mingjie Lin · 2025

Cross-embodiment robotic manipulation synthesis for complicated tasks is challenging, partially due to the scarcity of paired cross-embodiment datasets and the impediment of designing intricate contro…

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SoundSpring: Loss-Resilient Audio Transceiver with Dual-Functional Masked Language Modeling

Shengshi Yao, Jincheng Dai, Xiaoqi Qin, Sixian Wang, Siye Wang, Kai Niu, Ping Zhang · 2025

In this paper, we propose "SoundSpring", a cutting-edge error-resilient audio transceiver that marries the robustness benefits of joint source-channel coding (JSCC) while also being compatible with cu…

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How Well Do Supervised 3D Models Transfer to Medical Imaging Tasks?

Wenxuan Li, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou · 2025

The pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm has become prominent in transfer learning. For example, if the model is pre-trained on ImageNet and then fine-tuned to PASCAL, it can significantly outperform…

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